the global services market is growing at an annual rate of around ten percent report published by allied market research shows it could be worth over thirty billion dollars by two thousand and twenty three. sided as well as some countries shrinking populations are a drag on many of the advanced economies after all who's going to pay the pensions of an aging population procreation appears on many government agendas in the form of financial support when i first came to germany i couldn't get over how many of my friends had no brothers or sisters that's changing but slowly. one point five nine that's the average birth rate per woman in germany. it's the highest figure since the one nine hundred seventy s. numbers have been rising for years. and children were born in twenty sixteen. partly because an increasing number of older women became mothers often with the